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Places

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Memories

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Baker Lane, Stanley And Canal Road, Stanley

Does anybody have photos of Baker Lane or Canal Road in Stanley, or any information about the Littlewood family that lived there? If so, anything about the Littlewood family would be helpful. Contact details: satellite50@live.co.uk .......thank you. Peter Littlewood.

A memory of Stanley in 1900 by Peter Littlewood

Trevor Living There Practically All My Life

Further to Gary's memory I was the Julie that he lived next door to but my surname was Evans. For practically all of my life I have lived in Trevor and still see many of the people that I grew up with. ...Read more

A memory of Trevor in 2009 by Julie Cooper

My Childhood In Astmoor

I lived in Astmoor with my grandparents. My grandma sold sweets, pop and cigarettes. I went to Halton School and walked down Astmoor Lane which we called Summer Lane. Grandad worked at Astmoor tannery. We lived next to Ivy ...Read more

A memory of Astmoor in 1956 by Joan Tyghe

Drawbridge Cottage Exeter Canal Photo Ref 82302

Ref: 82302 This is a photo of Drawbridge Cottage where my family lived in 1901. John Thomas Helley and wife Eliza Ann(nee Gitsham) lived there with their children Florence, Maud, Louie ...Read more

A memory of Newton St Cyres in 1920 by Peter Morris

My Village As A Child

I was born at Grainthorpe in 1945 at Chapel Hill Cottages to Jim and Ivy Holdsworth Dad was a Geordie who came to the village in 1943 with the Royal Ulster Rifles. My mother was Ivy Loughton and was brought up by her ...Read more

A memory of Grainthorpe

Awalk With Grandfather

A walk with grandfather « Thread Started Yesterday at 2:03pm »    -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A Walk with Grandfather. I was about 11 years old, one summer's day, ...Read more

A memory of Stramshall in 1930 by John Mellor

Playing On The Canal

I spent many happy days here with my brother and sister. Playing in home-made boats made from corrugated tin, catching tadpoles and skating on very thin ice in the winter. I lived in Woodview Road and my grandparents lived in Mount Pleasant.

A memory of Risca by Virginia Kidd

Takes Me Back

In this picture, the post in the middle of the path is an old canon barrel. When I went for walks along this canal as a kid, I can remember running on ahead of my parents a short distance with my brother and sister to the canon ...Read more

A memory of Pontymister by Martin Blandford

Station Road

I have very fond memories of walking up this road in order to catch the old steam train to Chippenham, but alighting at Black Dog so that we could visit my grandparents who lived in Stanley. In younger days, I would paddle in the canal ...Read more

A memory of Calne in 1950 by Judy Cook

Trevor

I have many many fond memories of Trevor. I grew up there as a child but was moved away from there at the age of 11. I lived across the road from the community centre, No 45,  Julie Roberts used to live next door and my best mate Vincent ...Read more

A memory of Trevor by Gary Williams

Captions

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Caption For Salisbury, New Canal C1950

In this photograph, New Canal has become a one way street—yet it still looks congested.

Caption For Coombe Bissett, The Village C1955

In this view the pub, the river, and both bridges can all be seen. Note the pole sign for the pub standing in the river.

Caption For Saddington, Main Street C1955

To its south is Saddington Reservoir, a picturesque stretch of water created in the 1790s to feed the Grand Union Canal.

Caption For Wisbech, The Canal 1929

Wisbech's five mile-long canal once connected the villages of Outwell and Upwell with the River Nene at Wisbech. It has since been filled in and closed down. Wisbech is the capital of the Fens.

Caption For Norwich, The Cathedral And Pulls Ferry 1891

The lane to Lower Close was originally a canal, used for carrying stone for building the cathedral.

Caption For Burnley, Manchester Road 1895

As with so many other towns in the area, it was the Leeds and Liverpool canal which brought about the growth of Burnley, and there is a large piece of that canal history alive and well at the

Caption For Theale, The Kennet And Avon Canal C1955

Following the nationalisation of the railways in 1948, the Kennet and Avon Canal was closed to navigation in 1951, about four years before this photograph was taken.

Caption For Rickmansworth, The Canal 1897

By 1796 the Grand Junction Canal passed through Rickmansworth on its way from Brentford on the Thames to Braunston.

Caption For Rickmansworth, Canal And Batchworth Lock 1897

111Southern England HERTFORDSHIRE RICKMANSWORTH, The Canal and

Caption For Ipswich, On The Gipping 1893

This is a picture of tranquillity perhaps, but the Gipping was effectively a canal with a tow path, made to assist the carriage of goods upstream as far as Stowmarket.

Caption For Pontymister, Twm Barlwm From Canal C1955

Another view of the canal, showing how overgrown it had become by this time.

Caption For Wisbech, The Canal 1929

Wisbech's five mile-long canal once connected the villages of Outwell and Upwell with the River Nene at Wisbech. It has since been filled in and closed down. Wisbech is the capital of the Fens.

Caption For Elsecar, Parish Church C1955

Rockingham also built a short canal to link with the Dearne and Dove Canal.

Caption For Norwich, The Cathedral And Pulls Ferry 1891

The lane to Lower Close was originally a canal, used for carrying stone for building the cathedral.

Caption For Exeter, In The Port 1896

Exeter City Basin opened in 1830 as the final stage of a canal development going back to 1563.

Caption For Nottingham, Carrington Street 1890

There is a policeman performing traffic duty at the junction with Canal Street, but the traffic - all horse-drawn - is very light.

Caption For Theale, The Kennet And Avon Canal C1955

Following the nationalisation of the railways in 1948, the Kennet and Avon Canal was closed to navigation in 1951, about four years before this photograph was taken.

Caption For Maldon, River At Beeleigh 1906

Strictly speaking, this barge is on a canal.

Caption For Aylesbury, The Canal 1897

Children are trying their luck at fishing in the Aylesbury Arm of the Grand Junction Canal. Just beyond the bridge is the delightfully named Hills and Partridges Lock.

Caption For Daventry, The Canal C1965

The two vessels moored on the right are British Waterways boats used to maintain the canal.

Caption For Wisbech, View From North Brink 1901

The success of Wisbech has always depended on its rivers and canals. The five mile-long Wisbech Canal once connected the villages of Outwell and Upwell with the River Nene at Wisbech.

Caption For Loxwood, Combination Stores C1950

Loxwood is on the route of the partly-restored Wey and Arun canal near the Surrey border - 'London's lost route to the sea'. The church of St John the Baptist was built in 1898.

Caption For Gnosall, Village 1899

Gnosall also had two canal-side pubs, the Boat Inn by Bridge No 34, and the Navigation Inn by Bridge No 35.

Caption For Congleton, Dane Valley 1898

Although not identified by the Frith photographer, this scene appears to be taken near Danebridge, a short way upstream from the weir and canal feeder.